Talk:Stanisław Jerzy Lec

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 * A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
 * To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
 * We know we are on the wrong track, but we are compensating for this shortcoming by accelerating.
 * Cited by Hermann Scheer in his book Energy Autonomy
 * The exit is usually where the entrance was.
 * What limps – moves.
 * pl: Co kuleje – idzie.


 * In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
 * The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
 * Even a glass eye can see its blindness.
 * To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
 * I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
 * You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
 * Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
 * If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
 * If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
 * Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
 * The first condition of immortality is death.
 * The first symptom of death is birth.
 * pl: Pierwszym objawem śmierci są narodziny.


 * Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
 * Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.